Cailey considered long–term careers in both early childhood Social Work and Exercise Science, but along the winding road plagued by unprecedented times that accompanies all Millennials, she found her purpose in Massage Therapy.
The repetitive motions and physical demands of both athletics and musicianship throughout her younger years gave Cailey a unique window into the aches and injuries both she and her peers experienced, sparking her interest in the importance of conditioning and bodywork. Once out of high school, she remained undecided on further education and jumped into both full-time nannying and a sales career, while becoming a true workout junky. Experiencing a running injury during this time forced her to delve into alternative healing. She found lasting relief in Massage Therapy, Acupuncture, Chiropractic, and Physical Therapy. Inspired by the power of collective care, the utilization of both scientific and holistic approaches, and the emphasis that good practitioners put on independent education for self-sustained wellness, Cailey and her pending student loan approvals finally landed on a true path forward.
She graduated from The New York Institute of Massage, and has been licensed and practicing in NYS since January of 2018. Cailey likes to describe how she enacts her treatments as a mosaic: a complete concept on its own, but influenced by fragments of every job she’s worked; every instrument she’s played, every person for whom she’s cared; every lesson that the universe has both carefully and carelessly thrown her way. In 2023, Cailey experienced a Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection heart attack, also known as a SCAD MI. With no definitive medical cause found, this event and the anxiety around a recurrence permanently changed both her work and life. Included in that were the silver linings- a deeper empathy for chronic illnesses and their eternal ripple effects, an ability to maybe battle the American healthcare system, receiving the support that came with an adult diagnosis of anxiety and ADHD in women, and the realization that “embodiment” isn’t just a fun pandemic-era buzzword; it’s a necessity for survival.
“Embodiment is not just a fun pandemic–era buzzword; it is a necessity for survival.”
Within her integrative therapeutic approach, Cailey utilizes a decade of honed expertise to help repair a sliding scale of acute and chronic injuries, balance structural weaknesses, and ease psychosomatic fatigues. She works to facilitate a holistic treatment schedule for each client, with the long term goal of evidence-based, independent wellness. Her additional training and continued education certifications include neuromuscular therapeutic massage, Foot Reflexology, Ashiatsu Bar massage, cupping, lymphatic support, and somatic repair. Conditions benefiting from her unique skillset include (but are not limited to) headaches, migraines, spinal whiplash, athletic injuries, post-surgical scar tissue repair, pregnancy in second and third trimesters, postpartum postural adaptions, sinus issues, chronic fatigue, overuse injuries, foot neuropathy, and many autoimmune illnesses. In treating any body, Cailey refuses to sacrifice relaxation and renewal for orthopedic benefit, and vice versa. This ideology creates a custom, balanced experience for both the muscular and nervous systems to heal in the most optimal setting.
When she’s not wearing the minimum of 14 hats required of a small business owner, Cailey can be found working at a local university to bring stress relief to students via chair massage, trying to meet each day with servitude and humor in the ways her late grandparents always modeled, walking with her Boston Terriers, taking pictures of the sunset every time she actually sees it, pleading with the powers that be for a Super Bowl and Stanley Cup win before the world ends, enjoying an overpriced latte on a Saturday with her Physical Therapist boyfriend (and continuing to steal his knowledge whenever they talk shop while remaining within HIPAA regulations) rereading novels she loved when she was 14 while ignoring piles of recently purchased books, emerging from nannying retirement occasionally for all of her friends’ kids, buying yet another concert ticket while having no flights or accommodations booked in the city hosting said concert, keeping her senior cat happy with too many treats so she stops trying to escape her canine sisters, rewatching New Girl or Psych, and easing back into power yoga and weight lifting since cardiac rehab. Cailey is a fierce advocate for increased funding of medical research regarding illnesses affecting women and minorities, suicide prevention, awareness of controlled trafficking/organized abuse, and liberty and justice for all.
